About Islands People
pp. 14-15 · Read in the full issue
Mr. W. E. Ryall, a director of Messrs.
Nelson and Robertson Pty. Ltd., and of R-abaul Hotel Ltd., will make a business visit to Papua and New Guinea by the Swartenhondt, sailing from Sydney on January 25. He will leave the boat at Port Moresby, fly over to the N.G. gold fields, and then visit Kavieng, Madanp- Rabaul, and other ports, before return ing to Sydney.
Mr. Wilbur T. Bell, of Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., Wau, New Guinea, married Miss Jean Drosten, of Waverley, N.S.W. at Wesley School chapel, Sydney, ’ on January 11.
Mr. Richard Hetherington Carruthers, only son of Hon. I. H. Carruthers, of Samoa, married Miss Joy (“Billie”) Rosabel Nelson, daughter of Mr. O F Nelson, at Apia at the end of December!
Rev. W. T. and Mrs. Taylor, of the New Guinea Mission at Wanigela, Papua sailed from Sydney for Samarai by the Montoro on January 14. They now will be stationed at Boianai.
Miss E’len (“Nel”) Jean Donkin saileu irom Sydney by the Aorangi on January 20 for Suva, where her marriage to Mr.
Trevor Mune, of Fiji will take place shortly.
Hon. E. C. Harris, Treasurer of Papua arrived in Sydney by the Montoro on January 10. He will go on to England shortly, and then visit Europe. Mr. S.
Smith is relieving at thel Treasury.
Mr. George Step, a director of C. Sulli van Ltd., well-known Islands merchants of Sydney, departed from Australia by the Pierre Loti on January 15 on a busi ness trip that will embrace New Cale donia, New Hebrides, and the Banks Group. He will return to Sydney at the end of February.
Miss I. Emert, who has been stationed temporarily at the Methodist Mission’s Ballantine Memorial School for Girls in Suva, returned to Australia from Fiji by the December Niagara.
Mr. T. G. Aitchison, Assistant District Officer, of Ramu, New Guinea, spent fur lough in Melbourne and Canberra in December.
Mr. K, H. Waters, B.A. (Cambridge), has accepted a position as resident mas ter at Newington College, Sydney, where a number of Islands boys are being edu cated. Mr. Waters obtained a First Class in the Classical Tripos, and sub sequently in the Modern Language, Tripos obtained a First Class in Spanish and a Second Class in French, and since has been teaching in England. He arrived from London early in January.
Mr. Carl R. Vasey, the recently-appointedman ager of the Methodist Mission’s plantation at Ulu, New Britain, arrived at Rabaul by the “Neptuna” on December 24 to take up his new duties. A Victorian, he is a graduate of Long erenong Agricultural College.
Photo: “Mission Review”.
Mr. W. T. Hyder, Dental Officer to the N.S.W. Department of Education, sailed from Sydney for Norfolk Island by the January Morinda to make an examination of the health of N.I. school children.
Mr. W. H. Fetch, owing to pressure of other duties, has resigned the treasure ship of the Pacific Islands Club, Sydney, of which he is a foundation member. At one time Mr. Fetch was schoolmaster at Pitcairn Island, and he also has resided at Nauru Island, Rarotonga, and Tahiti.
Mrs. India Nemaia, a Samoan nurse and teacher, arrived in Sydney by the Montoro in January from Samarai, where she has been teaching at Lawes College for several years. Mrs. Nemaia is the first Samoan woman to qualify fully as a nurse. About 18 monthsi ago, Mrs.
Nemaia’s husband, who was with her in Papua, died. Mrs. Nemaia has spent about 13 years in that territory and she is now returning to Samoa, where she will continue teaching.
Mr. C. J. Pocock, who has been in charge of the Travel Department of the Bank of New South Wales at Suva for some time has been transferred to Head Office, Sydney, as assistant accountant.
Mr. L. C. Bentley, who has been in the service of Burns Philp (S.S.) Co., for the past 28 years, and who until recently was merchandise and sales manager in Suva, Fiji, has 1 resigned and joined Pearce and Co., as a director. Mr. A.
E. Waddingham, B.P. manager at Labasa, has been transferred to Suva to take Mr. Bentley’s place.
Rev. W. B. Seaton, who has been in the Solomon Isands with the Melanesian Mission since 1921, and who is at present in England on furlough, has been advised by a London tropical disease specialist that he cannot return to the Pacific for at least two years, owing to his continued ill-health. In recent years, he has been in charge of the senior native boys’ school at Ugi, 8.5.1 Mr. R. B. Ackland, of the Treasury staff in Suva, Fiji, accompanied by Mrs.
Ackland. arrived in New Zealand on leave by the Niagara in December.
Major A. H. Stafford and Captain Ratu J.L.V. Sukuna have been appointed Honorary Aides-de-Camp to the Governor of Fiji (Sir Arthur Richards).
Sir Maynard and Lady Hedstrom, of Suva, returned to Fiji by the December Mariposa, after a visit to the Far East.
Mr. H. R. Greening, of Morris Hed strom’s staff in Fiji, accompanied by Mrs.
Greening, arrived in Auckland, N.Z., on holidays by the Mariposa + on December Mr. L. McMillan, field research officer of the Museum of Natural History, of New York, U.S.A., is at present working m New Caledonia. Three crates of bird skins, animal skins, insects, eggs, and other specimens collected by him were despatched to America by the Monterey from Sydney on January 24.
Mr. Alport Barker was a passenger f£ on L Fl;il for Auckland and Sydney bv the December Mariposa.
H B ™wn, of N.Z., has joined Samoa taff ° f Apia Hospita1 ’ Western Stephens > formerly Resident Medical Officer at Ocean Island, Central PnSSn’ri d « d T from Austr alia for January. by the JerVlS Bay in early
Rev. J. Gillan, grandson of Rev. John G. Paton, pioneer Presbyterian mission ary in the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney with his wife and two children by the “Pierre Loti” on January 7. They later went on to Victoria. Mr. Gillan has been stationed on Tangoa Island for the past six years, in charge of the Native Teachers’ Training Institution.
Mrs. G. A. Bonney, wife of the Port Medical Officer at Samarai, joined the “Montoro” at Brisbane on January 17,
en route to her home at Samarai, Papua.
Mr. W. F. Hayward, accountant in the Post and Telegraph Department, Fiji, has been promoted to Postmaster- General.